AMD Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A530M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Arc A530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Intel Arc A530M 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 33% (1300MHz vs 975MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 174.7GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (65W vs 80W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 M290X Mac Edition
1.997 TFLOPS
Arc A530M
+100%
3.994 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2014
Release Date
Aug 2023
Crystal System
Generation
Alchemist
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
900 MHz
975 MHz
Boost Clock
1300 MHz
1365 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
174.7GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
1536
64
TMUs
96
32
ROPs
48
-
Tensor Cores
192
-
RT Cores
12
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
62.40 GPixel/s
62.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
124.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
7.987 TFLOPS
1.997 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.994 TFLOPS
124.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
80W
TDP
65W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
DG2-256
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
ACM-G12
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
6 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
Unknown
212 mm²
Die Size
Unknown
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
6.6
